WoRMS taxon details
Acropora brueggemanni (Brook, 1893)
AphiaID: 207067
AphiaID: 207067
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Isopora brueggemanni (Brook, 1893) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Acropora Oken, 1815 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acropora uncinata (Brook, 1892) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: Lemmens, J.W.T.J. (1993). Reef-building corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from the Watamu Marine National Reserve, Kenya; an annotated species list. Zoologische mededelingen 67, 453-465 [details] additional source: Wallace, C.C., 1999. Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. : i-xviii, 1-421. [details] additional source: Wallace CC, Chen CA, Fukami H, Muir PR (2007) Recognition of separate genera within Acropora based on new morphological, reproductive and genetic evidence from Acropora togianensis, and elevation of the subgenus Isopora Studer, 1878 to genus (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniidae; Acroporidae). Coral Reefs 26: 231–239. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Mozambique [details] Seychelles [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are arborescent or prostrate with tapering branches with blunt ends and one or more immersed axial corallites. Colour: pale or dark brown. Abundance: common in shallow water, including exposed upper reef slopes and reef flats (Veron, 1986). [details] Remark: Spelled A. brueggemannii in Lemmens (1993). Type locality: Singapore (Veron, 1986). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207067 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Acropora brueggemanni (Brook, 1893). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207067 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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